Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-04-15
BILL NYE.
HE MAKES TRIAL OF HIS HAND AS
A LOCALIZER.
AsHRvILLE, n. @.

OuS IL was Oduoth W " NNiNS'''N
fIue, for the fire caught in the north
wing. He tries to make light of 1t, |
but the wood he has been using all
winter was white birch, and when
he got a big dose of hickory at the
same place last week it was so dark
that he didn't notice the difference
and before he knew it he had a
bigger fire than he had allowed
In the midst OF a pleasant flow of
e6HTefsstsi9n gas COLLECTED 10 the The.
wood and caused an explosion,
which threw a passel of live Goals
on the bed. The house was soon a
solid mass of flame. Mr.. Beasley
is still short two children.
Mr.. Granulation Hicks, Of Bos.
ton, Mass, who has won deserved
distinction in advancing the inter
ests of Sir George Pullman, of
Chicago, is here visiting his par
ents, who reside on Upper Hominy.
We are glad to see Mr.. Hicks, and
hope he may live long to visit Blue
Ruin and prOpitiate up and down
our streets.
Miss Roseola Cardiman has just
been the recipient of beautiful
pair of chaste ear-bobs from her
brother, who is night watchman
in a jewelry store run by man
named Tiffany in New York
Roseola claims that Tiffany makes
a right smart of her brother, and
sets a heap by him.
WhOoping cough and horse dis
temper are again making fearful
havoc among the better classes at
the foot OF Pizen Ivy avenue.
We are panied to learn that the
free reading room, established over
Amalgamatlon Browns store, has
been closed up by the police. Blue
Ruin has clamored for q free tenn
perance reading room and brain
retOrt for ten years, and now a
ruction between two Of our best
known citizens, over the relative
merits Of a natural pair and a doc
tored flush, has called down the
vengeance of the authorities and
shut up what was credit to the
place and a quiet resort, where
young men could come night after
night and kind of complicate them
selves at. There are two or three
men in this place that will bully or
bust everything they can get into,
and they have perforated more out
RACES on Blue Ruin than we are
entitled to put up with.
There was a successful doings at
the creek last Sabbath, during
which baptism was administered
to tour grown people aud a dude
from Sand Mush. The pastor
thinks it will take first rate, though
it is still too soon to tell.
Surrender Adams got a letter last
Friday from his son Gladstone, who
filed on a homestead near POrcu
pine, d. t., two years ago. lie
says they have had another of those
unprecedented winters there fol
which Dakota is so Justly celebrat
ed. He thin ks this one has beer
even more so than any Of the 9th
ers. He wishes he was back here
at Blue Ruin, where a man can e.
out doors for half an hour without
getting ostra cised by the elements
He says they brag a good deal or
their ozone there. but he allows
that it can be overdone. He states
that when th o ozone in Dakota II
feeling pretty well and humping it
self and curling up sheet iron roof
and blowing trains off the track,
man has to tie clothesline to him
self, with the, outer end fastened t
the door knob, before it is safe t
} visit his own hen house. He say
} that his nearest neighbor is seyen
teen miles away, and a man nigh
, as well buy his own chickens as t
fool his money away on seventeen
: miles Of clothesline.
It is first rate letter, and th'
old man wonders who Gladston'
got to write it for him.
, Th valuable ecru dog of our dis
tingulshed townsman, Mr Pied
i mont. Babbitt, was seriously i'm
= pared last Saturday morning by Al
east bound freight.
He will not wrinkle up his nos
J at another freight train.
George Wellington, of Hickory
was in town the front end OF tn
! week. He has accepted a position
y IN the livery, feed and sale stabl
i at Sandy Mush. Call again, George
. Gabriel Brant met with n sa'
. mishap q few days since Will
o crossing the French Broad river
y by which he lost his leg.
= ANY one who may find an extr
u leg below where the accident OF
II CARED will confer a favor on Nj
Brant by returning same to Nc
O6s Pneumonia street. 1t may D
readily identified by any one, as
: is made of an old plckhandIe an
y weighs four pounds.
; ]. Quincy Burns has written
/; war article for the Century Mag
d zine, regarding battle where b
= was at. In this article he aims
10 describe the sensations OF a ma